(August 20, 2014 at 7:29 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(November 1, 2013 at 12:44 am)Cinjin Wrote: That sounds excellent. Kudos to those players. I'm sure history will remember them as a great human talent and a benefit to all mankind.
I do however wonder what the percent of winners is in comparison to the total amount of world wide gamers? .0000001% perhaps?
Just a thought.
Another thought you might wish to consider: sometimes going for simple entertainment, in order to escape the day-to-day stresses or ennui of life, is not necessarily a useless thing.
Also, since when are we required to benefit all mankind? And since that is your standard, can you show specifically what you have done in that regard?
Or, alternatively, you could go easy on the sanctimony.
Again, if we're going to be sanctimonious like the fell you're quoting above, then every book, movie, and TV show ever, no matter how entertaining and well made, would be similarly useless.
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
